Could I Be Patriotic Again?

And What is Palin Thinking?

PREFACE: Should we be proud that a potential Vice President of the United States has a pregnant 17 year old? Governor Palin is happy to be a grandparent. Am I missing something? I just heard Obama say that families especially children were off limits when it comes to campaigning. I understand what he is saying but isn't it important that this conservative Governor of Alaska could not bring up her child with her own values? I am just assuming that this families' goals weren't to be raising their daughter's baby; not to have their 17 year old marrying her boyfriend or the child's father. Certainly this is not a role model that we want to promote. Barack Obama is pro-choice; he will be a President who will work hard to prevent unwanted babies. How can this Governor govern and stand by her own values when her own family has failed. This is a great seque into what I want to say.

Between 1924 and 1954, the Pledge of Allegiance was worded:

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

In 1954, during the McCarthy era and communism scare, Congress passed a bill, which was signed into law, to add the words "under God." The current Pledge reads:

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The Pledge is recited, on average, tens of millions of times a day -- largely by students in schools across America.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/nat_pled1.htm